East Asia
Japanese Tsunami 2011

‘I want to bring her home’: Japanese man still searches for wife missing since 2011 tsunami

Yasuo Takamatsu's wife has been missing since Japan’s 2011 tsunami which killed tens of thousands of people. A decade on, he is still searching for her remains.

March 9, 2021
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